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Former Danish Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen has been charged with leaking state secrets under treason legislation.

Belgium has stripped the residency permit of the chief imam of the country’s largest mosque Mohamed Toujgani over national security concerns. 

A Palestinian-born volutneer at the Grenfell Tower fire has been convicted after accusing Jewish people of instigating the blaze.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned that there are likely many more Chinese Communist spies operating in Westminster.

Australia returned Novak Djokovic to detention on Saturday, saying the tennis star’s opposition to vaccination could cause “civil unrest”.

Italy has arrested four people smugglers, one of whom is said to be connected to the deaths of four migrants, including a woman. 

The people-smuggling trade has claimed its first life of the year in the English Channel, as another 400 illegal migrants have landed.

Facebook (now called Meta) is facing a $3.2 billion lawsuit over the alleged exploitation of its UK users. One expert involved in the lawsuit said: “They are exploiting users by taking their personal data without properly compensating them for taking that data. I don’t think the users are entirely clear when they click on the terms and conditions how unfair that deal is.”

Shops, bars and restaurants in a southern Dutch town opened Friday in a protest action in response to weeks of coronavirus lockdown measures.

Two North African youths, one born to parents from Morocco and another who came to Italy from Egypt, have been arrested.

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, her office said Friday.

Christine Lee, the alleged Chinese Communist spy, reportedly donated over £700,000 to the left-wing Labour Party in Britain.

Individuals with ginger hair could be the next protected characteristic with a UK Equality Charity CEO warning of prejudice against them.

Democrats used the Senate filibuster, which they are busy trying to eliminate, to block a bill by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday that would have sanctioned companies associated with Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The bill had 55 votes.

Boris Johnson’s office has apologised to Queen Elizabeth II for two parties held on the eve of the funeral for Prince Philip last year.

Princes Charles and William are said to have been the main influence behind the Queen’s stripping Andrew of his titles, Royal insiders claim. 

ONS: 5.6 million migrants in ten years will boost Britain’s population despite more people dying than being born.

Sweden’s National Police Chief Anders Thornberg had admitted that migration and issues with integration have contributed to the country’s ongoing problem with violent criminal gangs. Chief Thornberg states that the ongoing issues with gang violence, particularly the high levels of

Sinead O’Connor announced Thursday she has admitted herself to hospital just days after her teenage son was found dead.

The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) has been ordered to adopt Chinese goose-stepping drills in place of its traditional UK military step, as inherited after the transfer of sovereignty to Communist China in 1997.

The British Olympic Association has advised Team GB not to bring their mobile phones to Beijing, due to spying fears.

Germany is now ‘dramatically behind’ its CO2 emissions target shortly after it abandoned half of its remaining nuclear plants, calling the tech ‘dangerous’.

The German Economy Minister called for even more migrants to come to Germany to fill gaps in the labour market.

Australia’s Immigration Minister Alex Hawke used his personal power Friday to cancel Novak Djokovic’s visa, sparking the Serbian tennis star to file an immediate injunction against the decision ahead of his return to enforced detention.

An estimated 3,000 Bulgarians gathered in front of the country’s parliament building in Sophia on Wednesday to protest the country’s Chinese coronavirus “vaccine passport” system, with some “briefly scuffl[ing] with police” during the demonstration, Reuters reported.

The Catholic Diocese of Rome has forcefully condemned an incident outside a local parish church following a funeral Monday in which people draped the casket in a Nazi flag.

Ex-officers up to 70 years of age are being pulled out of retirement in Upper-Austria to help enforce national lockdown rules in the province.

A judge suspended a father’s right to see his 12-year-old child until he becomes fully vaccinated against coronavirus.

Buckingham Palace announced Thursday that Queen Elizabeth has stripped her son Prince Andrew of all military titles and patronages and he will no longer be entitled to use His Royal Highness (HRH) as a form of address.

The British security agency MI5 has claimed that a spy for Communist China has managed to infiltrate the UK parliament.

A German court has convicted a former Syrian secret police officer for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail near Damascus.

The number of suicide attempts amongst children increased threefold during Germany’s second lockdown, according to estimates in a university hospital report.

Tourism entrepreneurs in the northern Lapland region of Finland have warned the government that further Wuhan coronavirus restrictions could destroy their industry and could put tens of thousands of jobs at risk. The Association of Tourism Industries of Lapland (LME)

An MEP has called out the ‘brutal’ actions of police at lockdown protests in Europe, drawing comparisons to the old communist regimes.

More than 150 UK military veterans have written to Queen Elizabeth and asked her to strip Prince Andrew of his honorary military titles. Their call follows his relationship with the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The Conservative Party has fallen ten points behind the left-wing Labour Party in the latest opinion poll.